Swazi king fired PM by text message (Reuters)

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Swazi King Wants Teen Beauty Queen for
Bride? (Reuters)

Swazi King Wants Teen Beauty Queen for
Bride? (Reuters) 09/07/2004 08:49 AM
Reuters - Swaziland's King Mswati, sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch, has chosen a 16-year-old beauty queen as his 13th wife following a ceremony at which 20,000 bare-breasted maidens danced in his honor.

Employees Fired By Text Message Get
Compensation

Employees Fired By Text Message Get
Compensation 12/11/2003 02:31 PM
Back in June, we wrote about a UK company that had run out of money, and their advisors from PriceWaterhouseCoopers had decided that the most cost efficient way of letting the staff know was to send them all a text message on their phones telling them they had been fired and wouldn't be paid any money owed to them. Apparently, soon after that, the former head of the company was seen "sunning himself at his luxury villa in Spain." How nice. A small group of the fired employees have taken their claims against the company to an employment tribunal and won compensation, as the panel found that the staff had been "cynically manipulated". Of course, now, all the other employees are likely to file cases as well.

Swazi King gives PM SMS order of boot

Swazi King gives PM SMS order of boot 04/23/2004 10:51 AM
U R sakd, now push off m8

Text-Message Games Banned (Reuters)

Text-Message Games Banned (Reuters) 07/28/2004 08:04 AM
Reuters - Malaysia's guardian of Islamic law has banned Muslims from using text messaging to take part in prize-winning competitions, ruling that the practice is a form of gambling, a newspaper said on Wednesday.

Errant Valentine Text Message Nearly
Causes Split (Reuters)

Errant Valentine Text Message Nearly
Causes Split (Reuters) 02/16/2004 10:42 AM
Reuters - An intimate Valentine's Day text message nearly caused a Malaysian couple to split when it landed on the wrong mobile phone number, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

Malaysian Muftis Ban Text-Message Games
- Report (Reuters)

Malaysian Muftis Ban Text-Message Games
- Report (Reuters) 07/27/2004 11:27 PM
Reuters - Malaysia's guardian of Islamic law has banned Muslims from using text messaging to take part in prize-winning competitions, ruling that the practice is a form of gambling, a newspaper said on Wednesday.

Text Message Your Tent

Text Message Your Tent 05/10/2004 08:47 AM
While you can't get them in stores quite yet, a new 'Text Me Home Dome' tent has a built-in phone receiver and phone number, allowing you to send a special text message that will cause your tent to flash orange so you can pick out which one is yours (which...

A text message from Iran

A text message from Iran 03/06/2004 01:56 AM

Newsweek

"We will not take part in the funeral for freedom."

A cell-phone text message circulated in Iran to protest against a clampdown on reformists in last weeks of parliamentary elections.

Monarch sacks PM by text message

Monarch sacks PM by text message 04/28/2004 10:04 AM
ZDNet Apr 28 2004 1:52PM GMT

Text of Message From Steve Jobs (AP)

Text of Message From Steve Jobs (AP) 08/02/2004 10:22 AM
AP - Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs, sent the following e-mail Sunday to Apple Computer Inc. employees:

Text Message Traffic Alerts

Text Message Traffic Alerts 09/15/2004 02:13 AM
MyTrafficAlerts.com is a text message traffic alert service for the Chicago area. Traffic alerts for major Chicago routes are sent as text messages to cell phones, email addresses, and/or PDA's. Alerts are sent in user-selected half hour intervals. First thirty days are free, $2.99 per month afterward. [PRWEB Sep 15, 2004]

Text message freezes Siemens 35 and 45
phones

Text message freezes Siemens 35 and 45
phones 03/20/2003 08:33 AM
Patch available

China Extends Text Message Surveillance
(AP)

China Extends Text Message Surveillance
(AP) 07/02/2004 08:27 AM
AP - Chinese authorities plan to employ new technology to improve surveillance of mobile phone messages amid efforts to intensify the policing of private communications, reports said Friday.

New Record Claimed for Phone Text
Message (AP)

New Record Claimed for Phone Text
Message (AP) 06/28/2004 08:20 AM
AP - Technology-obsessed Singapore may have claimed a fresh world record Monday for punching in the fastest mobile phone text message after a competition that demanded a flair for dexterity, and considerable geekiness.

Finnair introduces check-in via text
message

Finnair introduces check-in via text
message 09/07/2004 01:59 PM
SiliconValley.com Sep 7 2004 4:54PM GMT

New Record Claimed for Phone Text
Message

New Record Claimed for Phone Text
Message 06/28/2004 02:39 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Jun 28 2004 6:52PM GMT

TSTT resumes text message service via
Internet

TSTT resumes text message service via
Internet 12/14/2003 02:18 AM
Trinidad Express Dec 14 2003 1:18AM ET

Telco Starting A Rumor Via Text Message
To Spur SMS Profits?

Telco Starting A Rumor Via Text Message
To Spur SMS Profits? 04/15/2005 06:43 PM
We've all heard the stories of break ing news being spread around by SMS text messages, as many people now look to SMS as their preferred way to communicate. However, since it usually costs money on a per messages basis, would a mobile operator ever stoop so low as to start a rumor campaign by text message, just to boost their own profits? That appears to be the accusation some are making according to an article found at textuall y.org about an investigation into a fake rumor that went around by text message concerning a potential earthquake in the Philippines.

Dead Woman's Text Message Helps Lock Up
Murderous Husband

Dead Woman's Text Message Helps Lock Up
Murderous Husband 05/10/2004 08:47 AM
A woman's mobile phone may help her get her revenge from beyond the grave, as a UK court heard last week the text message that she wrote--but never sent--on the day she was fatally stabbed by her ex-husband. The message reads, "20 march 03, twice 2 day howard threatened to...

Politcal leaders to decipher cellphone
speak as voters text message direct

Politcal leaders to decipher cellphone
speak as voters text message direct 06/05/2004 11:44 AM
Canadian Press Jun 5 2004 4:18PM GMT

French author brings out book -- written
in mobile text message slang (AFP)

French author brings out book -- written
in mobile text message slang (AFP) 01/28/2004 11:19 AM
AFP - A new book claiming to be the first written entirely in the abbreviated slang used in mobile phone text messages has come out in France with an anti-smoking story aimed at teenagers.

Priest Fired for Saying God Abdicated
(Reuters)

Priest Fired for Saying God Abdicated
(Reuters) 06/10/2004 02:43 PM
Reuters - A parish priest in Denmark was fired Thursday for saying God had abdicated "in favor of his son."

Last elves fired from Santa's HQ
(Reuters)

Last elves fired from Santa's HQ
(Reuters) 04/16/2004 07:40 AM
Reuters - The last three worker elves at Father Christmas's official headquarters in Finland's Arctic have been fired as Santa Park grapples with its finances.

Worker fired for selling Queen's
Christmas pud (Reuters)

Worker fired for selling Queen's
Christmas pud (Reuters) 12/19/2004 03:22 PM
Reuters - A worker at Buckingham Palace has been sacked for trying to sell a Christmas pudding gift from the Queen on an Internet auction site.

Sacre bleu! Waiters fired for being
French? (Reuters)

Sacre bleu! Waiters fired for being
French? (Reuters) 06/22/2005 02:18 AM
Reuters - Three former waiters at New York's posh 21 Club, where a hamburger costs $30, have filed a $5 million discrimination lawsuit saying they were fired for being French.

U.S. Contractor Fired for Military
Coffin Photo (Reuters)

U.S. Contractor Fired for Military
Coffin Photo (Reuters) 04/22/2004 01:24 PM
Reuters - A U.S. contractor and her husband have been fired after her photograph of 20 flag-draped coffins of slain U.S. soldiers going home from Iraq was published in violation of military rules.

"By including random text the
spammers hope to fool the filters into
thinking that a human, not a spammer,
wrote the message."

"By including random text the
spammers hope to fool the filters into
thinking that a human, not a spammer,
wrote the message." 12/03/2003 05:14 AM
cutting and pasting the text from various classic pieces of literature .. Spammers turn to classic prose .. BBC

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Ecuador Supreme Court Fired, Quito in
Emergency (Reuters)

Ecuador Supreme Court Fired, Quito in
Emergency (Reuters) 04/16/2005 02:44 AM
Reuters - Ecuadorean President Lucio Gutierrez fired the entire Supreme Court on Friday in an attempt to end a political crisis and declared a state of emergency in the capital Quito to quell protests.

Worker Fired for Selling Queen's Pudding
on EBay (Reuters)

Worker Fired for Selling Queen's Pudding
on EBay (Reuters) 12/19/2004 03:22 PM
Reuters - A worker at Britain's Buckingham Palace has been sacked for trying to sell a Christmas pudding gift from Queen Elizabeth on an Internet auction site.

Israeli Missile Fired Into Gaza
Village--Witnesses (Reuters)

Israeli Missile Fired Into Gaza
Village--Witnesses (Reuters) 08/04/2004 01:00 AM
Reuters - An Israeli helicopter on Wednesday fired a missile into an area of north Gaza where army forces have been trying to root out Palestinian militant rocket squads, but no casualties were reported, witnesses said.

The King and Queen of Karaoke (Reuters)

The King and Queen of Karaoke (Reuters) 08/02/2004 10:04 AM
Reuters - An Austrian man and a Lebanese woman were crowned king and queen of karaoke at the world championships after treating a crowd in Finland to a Bon Jovi classic and the theme of the 1980s musical "Fame."

King Leopold to get a home in Congo
(Reuters)

King Leopold to get a home in Congo
(Reuters) 02/05/2005 09:23 PM
Reuters - A tarnished statue of Congo's colonial ruler King Leopold II of Belgium, a reminder of the country's violent past, will be given a permanent home in the capital of the former Zaire, the government says.

Not the Best Christmas for Soccer King
George Best (Reuters)

Not the Best Christmas for Soccer King
George Best (Reuters) 12/29/2003 11:34 PM
Reuters - Troubled British soccer legend George Best spent Christmas night in police custody being questioned about an alleged assault, British newspapers say.

Burger King Says Web Chicken Won't Go
Mainstream (Reuters)

Burger King Says Web Chicken Won't Go
Mainstream (Reuters) 05/10/2004 05:54 PM
Reuters - Burger King, the world's No. 2 hamburger chain, is moving forward with plans to capitalize on the success of its offbeat "Subservient Chicken" Web site while making sure to keep its hero below the mainstream radar.

French royalists bury heart of boy king
(Reuters)

French royalists bury heart of boy king
(Reuters) 06/08/2004 10:46 AM
Reuters - France's royal descendants and their supporters have buried the shrivelled heart of Louis XVII, the boy king who died during the Revolution, after DNA tests confirmed the organ's authenticity.

Ex-king says astrologer saved Cambodia
from tsunami (Reuters)

Ex-king says astrologer saved Cambodia
from tsunami (Reuters) 01/02/2005 12:18 AM
Reuters - Former Cambodian king Norodom Sihanouk says an astrologer warned him that an "ultra-catastrophic cataclysm" would strike, but that his country would be spared if proper rituals were conducted.

For sale: Cypriot copper mine fit for
King Herod (Reuters)

For sale: Cypriot copper mine fit for
King Herod (Reuters) 04/14/2005 06:50 AM
Reuters - A copper mine in Cyprus where the metal has been mined since Biblical times faces closure unless the Church of Cyprus can find a buyer, officials said on Wednesday.

Biblical King Solomon Treasure Turns Out
to Be Fake (Reuters)

Biblical King Solomon Treasure Turns Out
to Be Fake (Reuters) 12/24/2004 01:13 PM
Reuters - A tiny ivory pomegranate once believed to be the only relic of King Solomon's biblical era Jewish Temple turns out not to be an artifact from the holy shrine, the Israel Museum said on Friday.

French Royalists Bury Shriveled Heart of
Boy King (Reuters)

French Royalists Bury Shriveled Heart of
Boy King (Reuters) 06/09/2004 07:25 AM
Reuters - France's royal descendants and their supporters Tuesday buried the shriveled heart of Louis XVII, the boy king who died during the Revolution, after DNA tests confirmed the organ's authenticity.
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Good Muslim, Bad Muslim

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim 04/11/2005 11:35 PM
...The presumption that there are 'good' Muslims readily available to be split off from 'bad' Muslims masks a failure to make a political analysis of our times. This book argues that political Islam emerged as the result of a modern encounter with Western power, and that the terrorist movement at the center of Islamist politics is an even more recent phenomenon, one that followed America’s embrace of proxy war after its defeat in Vietnam. Mamdani writes with great insight about the Reagan years, showing America’s embrace of the highly ideological politics of 'good' against 'evil.' Identifying militant nationalist governments as Soviet proxies in countries such as Nicaragua and Afghanistan, the Reagan administration readily backed terrorist movements, hailing them as the 'moral equivalents' of America’s Founding Fathers. The era of proxy wars has come to an end with the invasion of Iraq. And there, as in Vietnam, America will need to recognize that it is not fighting terrorism but nationalism... Here is an excerpt of Chapter 1 of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror, and with one review, two review, three reviews hereafter. And here is author Mahmood Mandmani interviewed by AsiaSource.

New Acronym

New Acronym 07/29/2004 01:13 AM
SLI

HTML is not an acronym...

HTML is not an acronym... 08/07/2002 03:29 PM
So what is? Discover the difference between an acronym, an abbreviation, and an initialism while learning some suggestions on how to treat them in Web pages.

acronym vs. abbr

acronym vs. abbr 01/03/2004 03:26 PM
Pedantry aside, I'm going to be kicking myself in a few years when I have to strip all the incorrect <acronym> tags that litter my code today. (To the curious: debates rage over the finer differences between <acronym> and...

New FOAF acronym

New FOAF acronym 01/26/2004 07:41 PM
SNOT: Social Networking Overdose Totality.

Example: I invited all of my friends to sign up for Orfuckster this week, despite having just come down with a bad case of SNOT.

Acronym Soup

Acronym Soup 04/27/2004 02:43 PM

ong oing · WS-*: This is pretty funny. It's a list of Web services projects underway that were mentioned at a conference called "CBDI" (I couldn't find a definition for that acronym).

...BPEL4WS (Business Process Execution Language for Web Services), WS-Addressing, WS-AtomicTransaction, WS-BPEL (Web Services Business Process Execution Language), WS-CAF (Web Services Coordination Framework, including WS-CTX, WS-CF, and WS-TXM), WS-Choreography, WS-Coordination, WSDL (Web Service Description Language), WSDM (Web Services Distributed Management), WS-Eventing, WS-Federation (Web Services Federation Language)...

This is abbreviated. It goes on for quite a ways.

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Acronym Finder

Acronym Finder 08/03/2004 05:35 AM
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Swazi king fired PM by text message (Reuters)

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